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London Challenge Poverty Week: Introducing RAPID: Measuring today’s poverty today

16 October
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Understanding poverty now is important for policy. And when it comes to households’ living standards, no aggregate, reliable, real time data is available. Until now. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has worked with Policy in Practice to develop a new tool to track aggregate poverty rates in the UK and its regions, using real time data.

Many of the tools we use to measure poverty rely on survey data or time lagged data from previous reporting periods. But the challenges we face are based on poverty now, not last year. RAPID addresses this gap by using benefits administrative data to create up to date, regional measures of poverty rates and living standards.

Join us for the launch of RAPID, Real time Analysis of Poverty Indicators Dashboard, a groundbreaking project designed to improve our understanding of poverty through real time data analysis.

Listen back to hear

  • How this innovative approach can help local authorities, non profits and policymakers to better respond to the needs of low income households, offering a crucial tool for informed decision making in the fight against poverty
  • Real life applications of RAPID to identify poverty trends and helping bridge the gap between data and actionable solutions
  • Q and A session where you can discuss how RAPID can be applied to support your work

Guest speaker

Adél Schofield JRF

Listen back to our speakers

Adél Schofield JRF

I'm so proud of the relationship between JRF and Policy in Practice that has come about through RAPID. JRF as a builder of insight infrastructure is something fairly new for us and it is a slightly different way of working. It's working in the open, how we develop things and doing it iteratively. I personally have learnt loads working on this project and I can't wait to see where we go next with it.

Kate Collins

RAPID provides a real time view of living standards for the lowest income households in London. We’re really grateful to have 16 London boroughs involved in this project. What’s particularly notable is that, compared to official data, the levels of poverty we’re seeing in RAPID for these households are much higher, with three in five households falling below the minimum income standard.

Rachael Walker

At Policy in Practice, we’re all about the data and we’ll continue to lobby for more data sharing from the government. Administrative data is an enormously rich dataset that’s sitting on a shelf. Yes, it’s used to administer benefits, but it can provide so much more insight. RAPID is a great example of how we can use this data to provide real time insights and argue for the change that’s needed to improve the lives of people on low incomes.

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